nityÄnande ÄjÃ±Ä dila, — 'yÄha gauá¸a-deÅ›e
anargala prema-bhakti kariha prakÄÅ›e

 nityÄnande - unto NityÄnanda Prabhu; ÄjÃ±Ä dila - Lord ÅšrÄ« Caitanya MahÄprabhu ordered; yÄha gauá¸a-deÅ›e - go to Gauá¸a-deÅ›a (Bengal); anargala - without restriction; prema-bhakti - devotional service in love of Godhead; kariha prakÄÅ›e - manifest.


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ÅšrÄ« Caitanya MahÄprabhu ordered NityÄnanda Prabhu, “Go to Bengal and, without restriction, manifest devotional service to the Lord, Kṛṣṇa consciousness.â€

Purport

ÅšrÄ« Caitanya MahÄprabhu thus ordered NityÄnanda Prabhu to deliver all the Bengalis to devotional service. In the Bhagavad-gÄ«tÄ (9.32) the Lord says:

mÄá¹ hi pÄrtha vyapÄÅ›ritya ye ’pi syuḥ pÄpa-yonayaḥ
striyo vaiÅ›yÄs tathÄ Å›Å«drÄs te ’pi yÄnti parÄá¹ gatim

“O son of Pá¹›thÄ, those who take shelter in Me, though they be of lower birth — women, vaiÅ›yas [merchants], and śūdras [workers] — can attain the supreme destination.†Whoever takes to Kṛṣṇa consciousness and follows the regulative principles can return home, back to Godhead.

In his AnubhÄá¹£ya, ÅšrÄ«la BhaktisiddhÄnta SarasvatÄ« ṬhÄkura writes, “There is a class of so-called devotees called prÄká¹›ta-sahajiyÄs who think that NityÄnanda Prabhu is an ordinary human being. They have spread the news that ÅšrÄ« Caitanya MahÄprabhu ordered NityÄnanda Prabhu to return to Bengal from Orissa just to marry and beget children. This is certainly a great offense against NityÄnanda Prabhu.â€

Such an offense is called pÄá¹£aṇá¸a-buddhi, or an atheistic remark. Offenders consider NityÄnanda Prabhu to be like one of them, an ordinary human being. They do not know of NityÄnanda Prabhu’s identity with the viṣṇu-tattva. Thinking NityÄnanda Prabhu to be an ordinary human being is the business of mental speculators known as kuṇapÄtma-vÄdÄ«s. These people accept the material body, which is a bag of three material elements (kuṇape tri-dhÄtuke), as themselves. They think that NityÄnanda Prabhu’s body was similarly material and that it was meant for sense gratification. Whoever thinks in this way is a candidate for the darkest regions of hell. Those who hanker after women and money, who are self-interested and have the mentality of merchants, can certainly discover many things with their fertile brains and speak against the authorized revealed scriptures. They also engage in some moneymaking businesses to cheat innocent people, and they try to support their business programs by making such offensive statements. Actually NityÄnanda Prabhu, being the expansion of ÅšrÄ« Caitanya MahÄprabhu, is the most munificent incarnation. No one should consider Him an ordinary human being or an entity like the prajÄpatis, who were ordered by BrahmÄ to increase generations. NityÄnanda Prabhu should not be considered instrumental for sense gratification. Although professional so-called preachers support this idea, such statements are not found in any authorized revealed scriptures. Actually there is no support for these statements made by sahajiyÄs or other professional distributors of kṛṣṇa-bhakti.